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Vietnam Veteran | Wound
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Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture | 2001 | Blair
Best Actor | 2001 | Samuel L.
Best Stunt Coordinator andor nd Unit Director Action Sequence | 2001 | Buddy Joe
Budget 60,000,000 USD
Box Office Collection 71,000,000 USD
When Hodges (Tommy Lee Jones) returns to the bombed-out embassy, there is a picture of then Vice President Al Gore on the charred wall. Gore and Jones were roommates at Harvard.
A replica of the Marine Corps base at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, was built at the Vint Hill Farm Station, South Manassas, Virginia. Approximately eight hundred Marines were hired for the combat, and other action scenes.
H. Lawrence Hodge's house, on the oceanfront (with the circular driveway), was also used as Jack Ryan's house in Patriot Games (1992).
Kim Delaney had a substantial role in this movie that was ultimately edited out of the final cut, however, she can still clearly be seen at Hodges retirement party.
The U.S.S. Wake Island LHA-7 is fictional, and not an actual U.S. Navy ship. The ship seen in the movie is actually the U.S.S. Tarawa LHA-1.
"Colonel Hayes Hodges: [final arguments of the defense] Colonel Hayes Hodges: [presenting a photo of the embassy to juries] That is sovereign United States territory as much as if it were in Ohio or Maryland. Colonel Childers didn't volunteer to go over there, he was ordered to go over there because he was the best man for the job. We armed him, we trained him, we sent him over there to risk his life to save other Americans and then ask him not to return fire? There are over three hundred bullet holes in this building. Colonel Childers didn't open fire, he returned fire. And he waited until after three of his Marines were dead and another lay mortally wounded. He waited until he was personally under heavy fire. He waited until he saw that crowd holding weapons, only then did he order his men to return fire. Under the Rules of Engagement, a civilian pointing a weapon is no longer a civilian and the use of deadly force is authorized in order to save lives. It's not murder, it's combat. Colonel Childers is the only man alive who was in a position to see that crowd, but the camera on the Embassy roof had the same point of view. The Government would have you believe there is no tape from that camera. I have shown you that that tape was delivered to the State Department, do you believe that that tape got up and walked out of the State Department on its own? By not producing that tape, the National Security Advisor, Mr. Sokal, has brought dishonor into this court. Without that tape, I cannot show you that the crowd fired first and that Colonel Childers is innocent. But without that tape, they cannot prove beyond a reasonable doubt that he's guilty. Here's my case, it's all I've got. Thirty-two years of service, thirty-two years of heroism as a United States Marine, regardless of what you decide here, Colonel Childers' career as a marine is over. He will never again command men in combat. The Ambassador and his family are alive today because of him, and I know how the Ambassador feels because Colonel Childers saved my life too. I am alive today only because of him! I'm alive today and I have a son, because of the heroism of Colonel Childers. To ask this man to risk his life for his country, to ask this man to watch his Marines die in his arms and call it murder when he's defending himself, to call it murder for firing back when being fired upon, to call it murder for saving the lives of his countrymen under the most extreme of circumstances, that's... my fellow Marines... that's hanging him out to dry... and it's worse than leaving him wounded on a battle field. That is something you do not do if you are a United States Marine, and it is something I pray to God you won't do here either."
"Colonel Hayes Hodges: You ever had a pissed-off Marine on your ass? National Security Advisor William Sokal: Is that a threat? Colonel Hayes Hodges: Oh, yes, sir."
